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Agnivesh, 49, died after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest while recovering from a skiing accident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Billionaire industrialist and Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal has announced that he will donate more than 75 per cent of his wealth to society after the sudden death of his son, Agnivesh, in the United States. Agnivesh, 49, died after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest while recovering from a skiing accident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.The businessman emphasised his late son’s vision for a self-sufficient India, recalling Agnivesh’s words that the nation had all it needed…

After his engineering, Pratik Jain worked became a founding member of ‘Citizens for Accountable Governance’ in 2013 which eventually culminated into I-PAC. Pratik Jain, co-founder and director of leading political consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee, or I-PAC, has found himself in the middle of a money laundering probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which conducted raids at not just I-PAC’s office but also Jain’s residence in West Bengal’s Kolkata. Apart from I-PAC’s office in Salt Lake and Jain’s house on Loudon Street in Kolkata, official sources told that eight other locations were raided by the ED officials in presence…

The Sanctioning of Russia Act 2025 allows the US to impose at least 500% tariff on India, China and Brazil to curb their Russian oil imports. US President Donald Trump has greenlit a bipartisan Russia Sanctions Bill, which allows the United States to impose at least 500% tariff on India, China and Brazil to curb their Russian oil imports. “This bill will allow President Trump to punish those countries who buy cheap Russian oil fueling Putin’s war machine,” Republic Senator Lindsay Graham wrote on X, formerly Twitter. He, along with Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, drafted the bill. “This bill would…

EAM S Jaishankar participated in India’s first-ever engagement in the Weimar Triangle, with French and Polish counterparts along with German representatives. Poland has backed India amid New Delhi’s standoff with the United States over its purchase of Russian oil, with Warsaw saying that it was “satisfied” with India’s cutback on imports from Moscow. This comes amid US President Donald Trump’s renewed threats against India, including the possibility of imposing punitive levies running as high as 500 per cent over the Russian oil imports amid the Ukraine War. “I expressed my satisfaction that India has reduced Russian oil imports because this…

The Enforcement Directorate was conducting raids at the residence of I-PAC director Pratik Jain when Mamata Banerjee turned up there. After West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee pulled up to the residence of Pratik Jain on Thursday, where Enforcement Directorate was conducting a raid in connection to a money laundering probe, the probe agency reached out to the Calcutta High Court to seek permission for filing a petition alleging interference in its investigation. Enforcement Directorate said that it conducted raids at as many as 10 locations on Thursday, six in West Bengal and four in Delhi, in connection with a…

“The PM’s good friend in the White House continues his ‘blow hot, blow cold’ approach to India,” says Jairam Ramesh, comms head of Congress. The Congress on Monday criticised US President Donald Trump over his remarks on India’s purchase of Russian oil, accusing Washington of pressuring New Delhi; and also questioned PM Narendra Modi’s government over it. Jairam Ramesh, general secretary and comms head of the main Opposition party, said Washington continues to follow a “blow hot, blow cold” policy toward Delhi despite repeated public displays of warmth between Modi and Trump. “India wanted to make me happy,” Trump said…

Maduro, who was raised Catholic, was introduced to Sathya Sai Baba by his wife Cilia Flores before their marriage. Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife Colia Flores, “captured” in an operation undertaken by the United States, have a little-known India connection via the late spiritual leader Sathya Sai. President Donald Trump’s US administration has accused the couple of overseeing a cocaine-trafficking network. The military operation is the biggest US intervention in Latin America since the invasion of Panama in 1989. US special forces entered Caracas in helicopters over the weekend and smashed through Maduro’s security cordon to capture him…

The IMD has forecast a gradual fall of two to three degrees Celsius in minimum temperatures over northwest India over the next four days. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a weather alert warning that dense fog conditions are likely to persist during morning hours across northwest, central, east and northeast India over the next four to five days. According to the IMD, cold conditions during the daytime are expected in isolated areas of eastern Rajasthan between January 5 and 7, Jharkhand on January 5, western Rajasthan and sub-Himalayan West Bengal from January 5 to 7; and Madhya Pradesh,…

Supreme Court on January 5 refused to grant bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots case, while five others were granted the relief. Jailed activist Umar Khalid has said he is “happy and relieved” for his co-accused who got bail in the Delhi riots “larger conspiracy” case, and racted with resignation to denial of bail to him by the Supreme Court on Monday, his partner Banojyotsna Lahiri said. The top court on January 5 refused to grant bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 case, saying there was a prima facie case…

JD Vance or his family was not home at the time of the incident, and authorities do not believe the person entered the house. One person is in custody, and an investigation is underway following an incident at the Ohio residence of US Vice President JD Vance. Several windows were damaged and broken glass was present, with both law enforcement and the Secret Service on the scene for further investigation. The Vance family was not home at the time of the incident in Cincinnati, and authorities do not believe the person entered the house. The investigators are probing whether the…